Export License Items for 2009      

China's Ministry of Commerce on December 10th, 2008 unveiled a 2009 list of 50 goods that need permits for exports, effective January 1st, 2009.
    The quota license control department under the ministry will be in charge of the issuance of export licenses for corn, wheat, cotton, coal, crude oil and petroleum products.
    The ministry's commissioner branches across the country will sign and issue licenses for coke, rare earth ores, zinc ore, phosphate rock, silicon carbide, fluorspar lumps and powder, talc lumps and powder, light magnesia/deadburned magnesia, alumina and natural sand.
    Regional commerce administration agencies authorized by the ministry will issue permits on paraffin, some metal products, citric acid, penicillin industrial salts, vitamin C and sodium sulfate.
    The ministry stressed that starting January 1st, 2009 exports for phosphate rock are practiced under the export quota and exports for penicillin industrial salts, vitamin C and sodium sulfate are managed by export licenses.